Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.